"Nature is so varied in its modes of……" — Camille Flammarion
"Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities."
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Camille Flammarion
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9 Quotes by Camille Flammarion
Camille Flammarion has 9 quotes on this site.
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That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have…
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Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation,…
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If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent…
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What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?
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The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of…
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The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.
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May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the…
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Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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